Temporopontine fibers

In the human nervous system the temporopontine fibers,^[1] a component of the corticopontine tract are lateral to the cerebrospinal fibers; they originate in the temporal lobe and end in the nuclei pontis.

Temporopontine fibers
Coronal section through mid-brain. Corpora quadrigemina Cerebral aqueduct Central gray stratum Interpeduncular space Sulcus lateralis Substantia nigra Red nucleus of tegmentum Oculomotor nerve, with 8’, its nucleus of origin Lemniscus (in blue) with a’ the medial lemniscus and a" the lateral lemniscus Medial longitudinal fasciculus Raphé Temporopontine fibers Portion of medial lemniscus, which runs to the lentiform nucleus and insula Cerebrospinal fibers Frontopontine fibers
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Identifiers
Latin	fibrae temporopontinae
NeuroNames	1329
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [edit on Wikidata]

References

  This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 802 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

1. Kamali A, Kramer LA, Frye RE, Butler IJ, Hasan KM. Diffusion tensor tractography of the human brain cortico-ponto-cerebellar pathways: a quantitative preliminary study. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2010 Oct;32(4):809-17. doi: 10.1002/jmri.22330. PMID 20882611